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How many genes do we have?

I stole this picture from Science so I am probably in a world of copyright pain right now, but I felt like sharing it with you…

Measured by number of genes we are really quite primitive.  Of course, the systems biology has a few things to say about the complexity, but the total number of human genes is really surprisingly low.

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2 Responses to “How many genes do we have?”

  1. amix Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    We are probably coded in a more high-order language, while the rice plant is coded in C :-D

  2. Thomas Mailund Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Not as far from the truth as you might think ;)

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